# H7225 רֵאשִׁית

רֵאשִׁית (rêʼshîyth), Strong’s H7225: the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit) KJV: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.. Occurs 51 times.

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*rêʼshîyth* — the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)

KJV: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.

Derived from [רֹאשׁ rôʼsh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7218) (the head)

Occurs 51 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רֵאשִׁית n.f. beginning, chief
- a beginning
- b first
- 2 first, chief

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1) — In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- [Genesis 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=10) — The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- [Genesis 49:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=3) — “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
- [Exodus 23:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=19) — You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a…
- [Exodus 34:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=26) — “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a…
- [Leviticus 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/2?v=12) — As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the…
- [Leviticus 23:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/23?v=10) — “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap…
- [Numbers 15:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=20) — Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor…
- [Numbers 15:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=21) — Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the LORD a wave offering throughout your generations.
- [Numbers 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=12) — “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them…